The Creepy Dudes of Wall Street: Are Finance Guys Losing Their Mojo on the Dating Scene, Too?

It’s tough to tell when an internet phenomenon reaches actual meme status. But, in the case of the “creepy finance guy,” I think we can finally call it. This week saw yet another jaw-dropping tale of Wall Street prattishness, this time in the form of a post-date survey. Yep, a finance dude went on a [...]

Warning: This is one heck of a depressing book. Not the whole thing, just the final chapters. It’s enough to make you want a stiff drink at the end — even if you don’t drink.
But it’s still a great story.

Chris Hentemann has two pieces of art on the walls of his corner office in midtown Manhattan. One is an oversize photograph of the cockpit of his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. The other is an Andy Warhol print of Muhammad Ali with his fists cocked.
For Hentemann, a rail-thin money manager who has spent 25 years in finance, the two pictures capture the duality of Wall Street. It’s an industry where you need to manage risk with precision and discipline, but it’s also one driven by audacity, ego and the killer instinct. Or at least it used to be.

Reuters published a pioneering appropriation of Ambrose Bierce's 1911 form in 2007, when the global financial crisis was barely beginning. Call it "The Original Devil’s Dictionary of Finance." But it no longer seems adequate for the post-crisis task. Herewith part one – for the letters A to K – of the sequel, updated and enlarged for the world of hedge funds, private equity, structured finance, subprime equity and the like: "The Devil's Dictionary of Post-Crisis Finance."

Enterprise security company FireEye may have just become the poster child for the tech bubble, both in its highs and its lows. Shares of FireEye have been on a roller coaster since the company had a spectacular IPO last September. they are currently crashing, down nearly 25% on Wednesday and down a jaw-dropping 72% since its high in March.